mamama
Re:At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @12:32AM (#431688)
"the professor covered multiple blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism."
Walter Lewin did a lot more than just that.
Re:Now you can choose which SATs you want colleges to see and which yo...
on Thursday January 01, 2009 @12:50AM (#416269)
Just another way for the ETS to sandwich more money.
Re:ACM Urges Obama To Include Computer Science in k-12 Education
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @01:03AM (#410810)
This is an interesting exchange between Mark Guzdial and Alan Kay: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKVUNBWIDAS9YQ
The focal point of the argument seems to be whether CS "education" and "vocational training" should be separated.
P.S. Nice to see another UIUC student. I've been accepted there and would possibly end up enrolling unless I get into some long shot universities. How is the scene there?
Re:Ask HN: Mac, Windows, Or Linux?
on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @12:35AM (#392532)
I feel Expose is quite counter-productive.
The golden rule any developer must know: never use the mouse. Multiple desktops and Quicksilver (instead of the dock, which is quite distracting) are far more efficient.
Re:Photo of the racks in the original Google datacenter
on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @01:25PM (#384587)
Yes, they are:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/speakers http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/
I remember seeing videos of Yegge's and Munroe's talks. Yegge's is worth watching.
Re:Seth's Blog: Gravity is just a theory
on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:10AM (#383046)
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. e.g. General relativity has a lot of mathematics backing it up.
Law: a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. e.g F = ma. We don't know why it's true, it just is some sort of an axiom.
Re:Ask HN: Should I drop out or not?
on Saturday November 29, 2008 @03:50AM (#380001)
I'm a high school senior student who has applied to several public universities; mainly a subset of Berkeley, UIUC, UWash, Michigan, UT Austin, GATech, and Purdue.
I'm wondering if you are at one of these these places (or a university of a similar reputation.) Do you think attending a private university such as Chicago or CMU is a better option?
Re:What did you use to teach yourself Python?
on Thursday November 27, 2008 @09:52AM (#378684)
The Hazel Tree: http://thehazeltree.org/
Re:Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?
on Saturday November 22, 2008 @10:06AM (#372966)
What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?
Re:Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize
on Sunday November 16, 2008 @03:41AM (#365894)
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Re:India successfully launches first mission to the Moon
on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @01:25PM (#340275)
Yeah, but we really ought to stop using extraneous punctuation.
Re:India successfully launches first mission to the Moon
on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @01:24PM (#340274)
A big cultural problem also amplifies this: a majority of the middle and upper class families want their children to become engineers.
Our country does not need any more corporate drones, we need better politicians.
Re:India successfully launches first mission to the Moon
on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @07:06AM (#339910)
It's actually the education system that is largely responsible for the "extremely corrupted political system", among other issues.
Re:Ask HN: No, seriously, what is the best distro for web applications?
on Sunday October 19, 2008 @06:13AM (#337008)
Windows 7
Re:Nerd library to end all nerd libraries
on Friday October 10, 2008 @05:59AM (#328697)
No.
Re:We're Not Rock Stars Anymore
on Friday October 10, 2008 @05:08AM (#328681)
Wow, that reporter sure is attractive.
Re:Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
on Thursday October 09, 2008 @04:06PM (#328198)
The Cookbook (Amazon it, I'm too sleepy to link) contains examples of idiomatic code that you should use.
Re:Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
on Thursday October 09, 2008 @04:05PM (#328197)
The BitTorrent code looked awful the last time I saw it; complete with 20 arguments for one function.
Re:America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @06:33AM (#325605)
Not all of us went to MIT.
Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich
on Saturday October 04, 2008 @01:42PM (#323580)
Mark Cuban on how to become an innumerate tool: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/35949.html?thread=516461.
Re:PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential p...
on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @05:26AM (#319449)
...or google RMS!
Re:Learning the craft (of programming)
on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:59PM (#299585)
These two books look interesting, too:
http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/
As for your suggestion on reading Understanding the Linux Kernel, is it readable even if I haven't taken a course on Operating Systems or something equivalent?
Re:How to recognise a good programmer
on Saturday September 06, 2008 @03:27PM (#296973)
Then you've got other problems.
Re:The Google Chrome download link is live.
on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @03:12PM (#293013)
True. And fairly polished, too.
Re:Detailed review of MIT's OCW course "Introduction to Algorithms", P...
on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @06:42AM (#281362)
However, Charles Leiserson is a pedantic douche.
Re:China's children buckling under the pressure of their parents' defe...
on Friday August 15, 2008 @02:15PM (#277180)
Are you referring to Chinese immigrants? Because if China is anything like India, kids would actually be discouraged to play the piano, as it would prove to be a "distraction from their studies."
Re:China's children buckling under the pressure of their parents' defe...
on Friday August 15, 2008 @02:09PM (#277175)
I feel only a small fraction of them are actually smart... the entire K-12 education in India is little more that an exercise in rote memorization. College education isn't that great either, even in the elite universities.
Re:The Emperor: The ultimate geek workstation
on Saturday June 14, 2008 @02:06AM (#217403)
But can it run Crysis?
Re:JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard
on Sunday June 08, 2008 @11:37AM (#212123)
Not as good as "Larry Ellison's speech" at Yale:
Re:Breaking News: Girls don't become engineers because they don't wan...
on Monday May 19, 2008 @01:55PM (#194274)
These pointless "women in computer science" articles really make my trigger finger itchy.